REG - Speedy Hire PLC - Result of AGM

Speedy HireAnnouncement

07/09/2023 15:00

For best results when printing this announcement, please click on link below:
http://newsfile.refinitiv.com/getnewsfile/v1/story?guid=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20230907:nRSG7635La&default-theme=true

RNS Number : 7635L  Speedy Hire PLC  07 September 2023

Speedy Hire Plc

7 September 2023

 

 

Speedy Hire Plc ("Company")

Resolutions passed at Annual General Meeting - 7 September 2023

 

 

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 7 September 2023 at the
offices of Addleshaw Goddard LLP at Milton Gate, 60 Chiswell Street, London
EC1Y 4AG, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were voted on a
poll and passed by the requisite majorities.

 

Resolutions 1 to 15 and resolution 20 were passed as ordinary resolutions and
resolutions 16 to 19 were passed as special resolutions. The results of the
poll are set out below:

 

 No  Resolution                                                                      For *                    Against                  Withheld **
                                                                                     No. of Votes  % of Vote  No. of Votes  % of Vote  No. of Votes
 1   To receive and adopt the annual accounts for the financial year ended 31 March  334,034,160   98.79%     4,092,120     1.21%      382,458
     2023 together with the

     reports of the Directors and auditors (ordinary).
 2   To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the financial year ended 31   334,750,118   98.92%     3,658,028     1.08%      100,592
     March 2023 (ordinary).
 3   To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy.                                  328,333,433   97.02%     10,084,023    2.98%      91,282
 4   To declare a final dividend of 1.80 pence per share in respect of the year      338,410,672   99.99%     42,663        0.01%      55,403
     ended 31 March 2023 (ordinary).
 5   To elect Dan Evans as a Director of the Company (ordinary).                     338,181,503   99.96%     122,072       0.04%      205,163
 6   To elect Paul Rayner as a Director of the Company (ordinary).                   338,257,171   99.97%     111,404       0.03%      140,163
 7   To re-elect David Shearer as a Director of the Company (ordinary).              301,328,552   89.66%     34,754,193    10.34%     2,425,993
 8   To re-elect David Garman as a Director of the Company (ordinary).               335,168,528   99.06%     3,187,890     0.94%      152,320
 9   To re-elect Rob Barclay as a Director of the Company (ordinary).                338,159,041   99.95%     175,567       0.05%      174,130
 10  To re-elect Rhian Bartlett as a Director of the Company (ordinary).             335,208,034   99.07%     3,139,392     0.93%      161,312
 11  To re-elect Shatish Dasani as a Director of the Company (ordinary).             334,697,764   98.95%     3,541,154     1.05%      269,820
 12  To re-elect Carol Kavanagh as a Director of the Company (ordinary).             338,198,558   99.95%     172,860       0.05%      137,320
 13  To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors (ordinary).                336,212,606   99.35%     2,205,924     0.65%      87,208
 14  To authorise the Directors to determine the remuneration of                     338,342,295   99.97%     113,224       0.03%      53,219
     PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (ordinary).
 15  To authorise the Directors to allot shares (ordinary).                          311,290,311   91.99%     27,118,928    8.01%      99,499
 16  To authorise the Directors to allot securities free from pre-emption rights,    309,433,862   91.42%     29,036,764    8.58%      38,112
     subject to certain specified limitations (special).
 17  To disapply statutory pre-emption rights in relation to acquisitions or other   309,236,620   91.40%     29,086,841    8.60%      185,277
     capital investments (special).
 18  To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares (special).  328,781,611   97.16%     9,614,705     2.84%      112,422
 19  To authorise the calling of general meetings on not less than 14 days' notice   337,948,712   99.86%     489,617       0.14%      70,409
     (special).
 20  To permit the Company to make political donations (ordinary).                   333,557,753   98.56%     4,857,311     1.44%      93,674

 

N.B. Percentage figures are rounded to 2 decimal places.

 

*     The votes of any proxy giving the Chairman discretion how to vote
have been included in the votes For a resolution.

**   A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the
calculation of percentages of votes cast For and Against a resolution.

 

As at 7 September 2023, the number of issued shares of the Company was
516,983,637, of which 55,146,281 were held in treasury. Therefore, the total
voting rights in the Company as at that date was 461,837,356.

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of all the resolutions passed as
special business at the Annual General Meeting will shortly be available for
inspection at the National Storage Mechanism which can be accessed at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

 

 

 

Neil Hunt

Company Secretary

 

 

This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authority to act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this information may apply. For further information, please contact
rns@lseg.com (mailto:rns@lseg.com)
 or visit
www.rns.com (http://www.rns.com/)
.

RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our
Privacy Policy (https://www.lseg.com/privacy-and-cookie-policy)
.   END  RAGUPUQCBUPWGWM